This actress affects French plays for reasons that have never been explained, and that certainly do not appear.
The actress herself has an agreeable personality and considerable ability.
In this act the actress wore black velvet, and looked every inch French--Bleecker Street French.
She is an emotional actress of considerable force, as she showed us in her production of "The Lady of the Camelias.
This particular actress is generally happy when she can select for herself a character that is beloved by all the masculine members of the cast.
She is a weighty actress corporeally, if not artistically, and poor Mercy Merrick fared rather badly.
Miss Mannering is not as good an actress as Miss Bingham.
Any actress who earns more than a hundred a week is supposed to have a maid in her dressing room.
Personal maids are one of the superstitions of the theatrical profession, and an actress of standing is supposed to go hungry rather than maidless.
She tells him that something or other was "tacitly conceded": and that "I love to see a great actress give expression to the wonderful ideas of the immortal master!
He writes briefly: "The play and the leading actress had an enormous success.
A Moscow actress never in her life saw a turkey-hen.
An actress who spoilt all her parts by very bad acting--and this continued all her life long until she died.
He began to tell me that he had the finest child actress in his troupe he had ever seen.
And she was naturally so accomplished an actress that she might defy any one to find out her real feelings, if she wished to disguise them.
There was a young baggage of an actress named Verieres, who tried to play the poor lost Adrienne Lecouvreur's part to Count Saxe.
My master had told me, on his return from these Paris rehearsals, that Monsieur Voltaire maintained the most conciliatory attitude throughout toward Francezka, who, he declared, was the only actress among all the ladies to be at Chambord.
I can not be indifferent to theactress who is to continue, and probably surpass, the Adrienne of to-day.
Up to that point, the young actress played with the true spirit of comedy.
And not being deficient in sense, Jacques Haret took pretty good care not to hint that his star actress was Madame Riano's niece.
In a few minutes, the child actress advertised as Mademoiselle Adrienne came upon the stage, and was greeted with uproarious applause.
But in this young girl whom he called Mademoiselle Adrienne, he had an actress worthy of better work than even he could do.
And before Tony could get her breath to do more than utter a rather shy and gasping word of gratitude, the actress had invited her to take tea with her on the next day and she had accepted and Carol Clay was gone.
The actress smiled and Tony smiled back and then forgot she was Tony, was henceforth only Rose of Killarney.
They loved Tony and just now she was not an actress to them but a girl who had loved a man, a man who was dead.
Miss Clay was back now and Tony was once more the humble understudy though with a heart full of happy knowledge of what it is like to be a real actress with a doting public at her feet.
I am particularly anxious to get a good understudy started in immediately," the actress continued.
Emma made her toilet with the fastidious care of an actress on her début.
When most I wish to disguise my feelings, then do I find how poor an actress I am.
Indeed Linda does not look like the daughter of a self-made manufacturer; rather like a Parisian actress with a talent for aristocratic roles.
She tolerated Felix around her, like a poor actress who wishes to quarrel with no one and tolerates every one; she did not encourage him.
She drew large houses, and greatly widened her reputation as a leading actress of her time.
The stage no longer brought its followers into disrepute, for it rested with the actress herself to preserve or to tarnish her character.
Her opportunity came, however, when a favorite actress who was to take the part of Ophelia was, at the eleventh hour, incapacitated from so doing.
Beecher ceased to think of Rita Kildair, and prepared himself, smiling astutely, for his approaching scene with the young actress whom he intended properly to discipline for her effrontery in imagining that he--Edward T.
The young actress turned to him with almost an expression of terror in her eyes, which at the same time implored him to be silent.
When she is an actress you say she is different from the rest--what a child!
A woman always wants what another woman wants, particularly when she is a little actressand I am Emma Fornez.
The young actress had the secret of what is meant by that much abused word--charm.
She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.
I was in the middle of the seventh act, always slower and more pleasant for the actress than the first two or three, when Costa came knocking loudly at my door, calling out that the felucca was ready.
One could not have a pretty actressto supper without causing a scandal, but such an invitation to a castrato makes nobody talk.
The voice and eyes of one actress pleased me; she was young and tall, but hunchbacked to an extraordinary degree.
Are you not generous enough to let me make her an actress in the drama?
At the second ballet at the opera an actress dressed in a tippet held out her cap to the bones as if to beg an alms, while she was dancing a pas de deux.
It was a kind of possession; spectators feel the same at the theatre, when they see the actress of their dreams.
She excelled even herself, and showed herself not less a great actress than an accomplished singer.
At the end of the following March, some days before the annual closing of the theatre, and without troubling to ask permission, the actress started off for Alsace, with the view of singing at the Strasburg theatre.
This young actress has received everything from beneficent Nature, and study and experience have had little to do with perfecting and completing her talents.
The actress was now indeed taking an ample revenge for the rebuff she had sustained in Ariane.
No actress of the time was so sought after, courted, adulated.
Contat was entrusted with the all-important part of Suzanne, a choice which caused considerable astonishment, as, admirable though the young actress was as an amoureuse, she had never yet attempted anything of this kind.
The new actress has begun to give petits soupers, which, it is hoped, may lead to what she has hitherto escaped.
Dauvergne would innocently suggest that another actress should sing Didon, and that Madame Saint-Huberty should rest, that her voice might be fresh for Alceste.
However, the public having with one accord decided to place the new actress on a pedestal and fall down before her, was, for the time being, blind to her shortcomings.
Good-by, Miss Campbell," called the others, while she smiled and bowed and waved her handkerchief like a favorite actress before an enthusiastic audience.
One evening Théophile Gautier brought a pretty actress to dinner.
A young actressin a company that played an American translation of Mme.
While the private-view company were assembled in doubt the great actress entered and walked across the room.
This actress has never been to dramatic school; she has not had the advantages of Alla Nazimova, who has worked with at least one fine stage director.
Mr. Symons, of course, had an actress in mind, but his argument can be applied to singers as well, although it is safest to remember that much of the true beauty of the human voice inevitably departs with the youth of its owner.
Yvette Guilbert once told me that crossing the Atlantic with Duse on one occasion she had asked the Italian actress if she were going to include La Dame aux Camélias in her American repertory.
Garrick declared her a betteractress than Clairon.
Should we not allot similar approval to the actor or actress who makes a fine effect in one part or in one kind of part?
There is no need here for the use of hammer or trowel; if an actress must seek aid in implements, let her rather rely on a soft brush, a lacy handkerchief, or a sparkling spangled fan.
In times of civil or international conflagration the dancer, the actress often play important rôles in world politics.
If she were not an actress she would undoubtedly behave much as she did in women's, suppressing unnecessary and telltale gestures as much as possible, but not trying to imitate mannish gestures which would immediately stamp her an impostor.
David Garrick, indeed, pronounced her a finer actress than Clairon.
In the case of Sarah Bernhardt, who was the creator, the actress or Sardou?
Experience has made of her an actress who is almost unfailing in her effect.
The same German actress whose opinion I have quoted, told me that the Leonora and the Iphigenia of Goethe were the parts she preferred to play.
This reminds me of another anecdote of the same accomplished actress and admirable woman.
Yet to satisfy the taste of a Parisian audience and the ambition of a Parisian actress this was not enough, and wickedness required the piquancy of immediate approximation with innocence.
Talleyrand; and on the intonation of this one word, pronounced as only an accomplished French actress could pronounce it, depends the denouement of the piece.
It is no reproach to a capital actress to play effectively a very wicked character.
A novelist may conceive his heroine freely as being tall or short, frail or firmly built; but if a dramatist is making a play for an actress like Maude Adams, an airy, slight physique is imposed upon his heroine in advance.
His growth in depicting the characters of young women is curiously coincident with the growth of his wife as an actress for whom to devise such characters.
Now, Sarah Bernhardt is an actress of marked abilities, and limitations likewise marked.
But Sarah Bernhardt, because as an actress she is Zoraya, contrived to lift it into life.
Coquelin had in his mind, when he was writing, an actress of more than forty, appearing in the role of eccentric ladies of fashion.
If this personality must be described, I would say that Mrs. Campbell's province as an actress is more particularly that of dangerous love.
Mr. Wilton, the father of an actress of whom I shall have much to say in these pages, used to tell how in his youth, when he was still a young and unknown actor, he had had the honour of playing with Edmund Kean.
I am told that the third act, when a good actress has taken part in it, has never failed to produce its effect, and I am not surprised.
Throughout he has had the co-operation of Miss Ellen Terry, an actress of the finest and most delicate talent, whose charm has resisted the passing of the years.
The actress had her share in this great triumph, and it was one of the strokes of luck attending this fortunate play that it was the means of revealing a great artist.
Boucicault was twice married, his first wife being Agnes Robertson, the adopted daughter of Charles Kean, and herself an actress of unusual ability.
In 1894 he married the actress Violet Vanbrugh, elder sister of the no less well-known actress Irene Vanbrugh, and he and his wife subsequently took the leading parts under his management of the Garrick theatre.
